dogle I was thinking Ctrl+A inside the date file, then drag and drop to paste en-block to the new frugal partition.

norsiwel - thanks for joining the thread - I tried to do what dogle needs - I loaded a live DVD with saved date files then installed the pet in Utilities; but when I clicked to try to save to a "normal" save file I got the message:

Today Barry, in response to a blog comment, very kindly suggested editing the PUPSTATE file to offer PUPMODE=5 in order to bring up the 'save to file' option at shutdown. (Previously I had tried PUPMODE=12, thinking this to be appropriate to a frugal install, without success).

This works, and Puppy appears to prepare a pupsave file as requested.

Attempts to boot the new installation so far have failed. I have been hoping that this was just down to my customary SNAFU with GRUB configuration etc. but, rather worryingly, I am now unable to boot the box from a live CD without the good old 'Kernel panic - not syncin' message appearing, unless I invoke pfix=ram.

This suggest to me that the PUPMODE 5 method may be leading to some sort of deeper filesystem corruption, and so I have been attempting to replicate the problem on a different machine. Unfortunately, today I seem to be landed with a moribund optical drive, and therefore my efforts have so far produced only an exciting new range of cusswords.

If anyone else is up for for trying the PUPMODE=5 route, your feedback would be very welcome.Last edited by dogle on Sat 22 Jan 2011, 18:26; edited 1 time in total

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